Edmund Kiss
When a researcher and poet of Edmund Kiss’s calibre brings the past to life, all the springs of the German soul begin to roar, tens of thousands of years are spanned and a bridge is built to everything that was of our blood and our kind in distant prehistoric times. Drawing on the detailed account of the Greek sage Plato and the latest findings of prehistoric research, Kiss creates an incredibly compact picture of life and activity in Atlantis, which disappeared around 14,000 years ago. Race and faith, the core issues of every ethnic community, form the basis of this novel, set around 20,000 years ago, on which the dramatic struggle of the Aesir son of Nordland Baldur Wieborg and his followers against the alien influences of power-hungry priests takes place. The heroism of loyalty to the people, sacrificing life and happiness, shines victoriously over this book. And we hear the old song that will never fall silent, that resounds again and again when a great, good man falls victim to the murderous steel: the legend of Baldur, whom Loki slew.